| Eurecom | |
|---|---|
| Institut Eurécom | |
| Established | 1991 |
| Type | Engineering school and research institute |
| Director | Ulrich Finger |
| Location | Sophia Antipolis, Alpes-Maritimes, France |
| Affiliations | Institut TELECOM |
| Website | http://www.eurecom.fr |
Eurecom is a graduate school in the domain of information and communication technology and a research center in communication systems. It was created in 1991 in Sophia-Antipolis by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (TELECOM ParisTech) and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), joined since by other European Universities such as the Polytechnic University of Turin, Helsinki University of Technology, and Munich University of Technology Norwegian University of sciences and technology.
It has strong industry ties. The current partners are Swisscom, Thales, SFR, Orange, Cisco and BMW Group Research & Technology, ST Ericsson, Symantec, SAP, Monaco Telecom.
EURECOM has an international orientation in the recruitment of professors and students from many different countries, with its European program and lectures held in English. EURECOM recruits about one hundred students for the Masters level per year and around seventy students for the PhD program.
The research activity of EURECOM is organized around three principal themes: mobile communication, multimedia communication, and networking and security. Two TELECOM ParisTech laboratories are associated with EURECOM, System on Chip and ICT Usage.
EURECOM is a major participant in European and national research programs and was granted "Institut Carnot" jointly with the institut telecom.